Have you been hurt in Church or by Christians?

Many times people leave Church or disconnect from the people God has placed in there lives by a misunderstanding that could have been resolved or by hearing untruths and never seeking to talk with the people involved. The Bible speaks of coming together to reason.Please dont mention the name of a person, Church or Pastor. Lets share ,maybe you can help others to be free and healing to start by sharing and your own healing by sharing and releasing. We dont talk. The World have many platforms, shows and forums to talk. We as Christians dont talk and share as much.Lets hear from you, Pastors as well.We have another discussion Musicians. It has been information shared, healing and just a blessing , so we prayed about this topic. If we could just talk , let all that is bottled up come out in a healthy and respectful way..

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Comment by Overseers-Prophets L & P Morgan on May 30, 2009 at 11:37pm
Greetings Dr. Brown,
To achieve that great goal of esteeming others above myself, I ask God to help me P.U.S.H. (pray until something happens) to fix my heart and help me to not be selfish and prideful in my relationships in any way. I P.U.S.H. to release him or her, and the memory of what they did or did not do, to Him. The pain of carring around grief and sadness was to great of a burden, too heavy for me to bear. I yoke up with the Lord instead and ask Him to carry that burden for me. My focus is to value (love) each person and I have a "Sisters" support group. Women Above Reproach W.A.R. to encourage others and myself to demonstrate godly love for every person with whom we come in contact. My greatest accomplishment has been to not think of what I can get out of a relationship, but what I can give to it. I chose not to live in the darkness of bitterness and unforgiveness. I want to live in the Divine light where I will not stumble. I pray for all our relationships to have a deep element of God's peace flowing though them. I ask the Holy Spirit to help us to be holy as He is holy, so that we become someone people enjoy being around and reflect goldly love and grace to others and be a blessing to the people in our life.

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Comment by DR.Marietta Brown on May 30, 2009 at 6:58pm
Micah Rasun_Vann , Very Great points you made and written in a great spirit. Remember us in you prayers and we will remember you ,great Woman Of God, you spirit seems to be good. Stay in touch with us.
Comment by Micah RaSun-Vann on May 30, 2009 at 12:55pm
I'm not sure I have had what is commonly referred to as a "church hurt", a possible close call but not to the point it has caused me to ever consider leaving the church. When I've listened to people talk about "church hurt" it's been someone in the church who they trusted in one way or another who betrayed them in some way or reacted in a way that hurt and/or offended them and blindsided them. Many left the church. In my own case I've had professing christians do and say unkind things but my relationship with them was not based on them being "in the church" or trusting them because they were "in church". The fact that they said they were christians was secondary to the relationship and therefore in no way impacted my relationship to the Church. Which is not the case with so many of the dechurched (meaning they left and are no longer in church) i've listened to over the years.

The close call I had was with a previous Baptist pastor and I only say Baptist because my background is pentacostal and we have a few differences on some non essentials of faith. I come from a generation of preaching women and believe women are called to preach. At the time I had just experienced a powerful encounter with God and was in the midst of very intense warfare for the first time in my life. I sensed Gods call on my life. I didn't know all the possible ways God could use me at the time so I went to speak with my pastor, when the pastor ask me if God was calling me to preach I said "yes". His response was frank, candid and cold. "You did not hear from God, i don't know who you heard from but God did not call any woman to preach". I could feel myself getting upset but I just looked at him with a thousand thoughts racing through my mind about his role as a pastor and at that point I knew he wasn't the one and was not capable of getting me through the warfare I was in. I calmly said I'll be leaving. My great grandmother was blind and preached for many years, my grandmother preached and both were powerful, god fearing women and lived well into their 80s and died peacefully in the Lord. So his words fell on deaf hears. His words saddened me but God has shown himself faithful. There are Mighty Women of God all across this nation that are outpreaching many a man not to competion but to show MAN that God is God and he can use whomever he desires. It is He who calls and empowers not man. I still see this pastor periodically and there's no animosity.

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